Calendar



(Model) J. R. SWAIN.

Calendar.

No, 241,088. Patented May 3,188L

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WITNESSES R A'fTORNEYS N. PETERS. Photo-Lithographer. Washington, v.0.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

JOSEPH R. SWAIN, OF SCARBOROUGH, NEW YORK.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 241,088, dated May 3, 1881. Application filed November 6, 1880. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. SWAIN, of Scarborough, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Calendars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a top view. Fig. 2 is a sectional view. Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are details.

This invention relates to calendars.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter specified.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Ais a casing, having back B, glass face 0, and fastening-rim D.

Secured by stud a, running through the center of back B, are two disks, E F, the bottom one of greater diameter than the upper.

Around the lower disk, E, beyond the periphery of disk F, are placed the names of the months of the year, with the number of the days in each month under its name.

Around the edge of disk F are arranged partitions I), in which are placed, in order, the initial letter of the names oi'the days in the week, except Sunday, which is left blank to better indicate week from week.

Inside of the circle form ed by said partitions, arranged at the ends of diameters at right angles to each other, are the initial letters of the cardinal points of the compass.

Arranged across the face of disk F are the directions for using the calendar.

G is an annulus, having'an exterior diameter equal to or more than that of disk E, and an interior diameter equal to that of disk F. Around the face of this annulus are partitions 0, containing the numbers of the days in the month running from 1 to 31. Between 31 and 1 the annulus has a slot, d.

Attached to stud a, between disks E and F, is a bar, H, whose ends-h are turned down and project through sector-slots e in disk E, said disk being loose on stud a. These slots 6 are 01" such length that the interior disk, F, may be turned a distance independent of disk E, such that the initial letter of a day of the week at one end of the slot can be turned so as to come opposite to and register with six others of the numbers on the annulus than the oneit is by.

By this construction, by operating the stud a by its handle a the two disks can be turned in one direction, the end of bar H bearing against the end of the slots to bring the name of the proper month under slot (1, and then the inner disk, F, being fast to the stud a, can be register the day of the week.

By this diary the days of the week for any month can be adjusted.

Either of the forms of bar H shown in Figs. 6 and 7 may be used.

What I claim is- The combination of casing A, consisting of back B, glass face 0, and fastening-rim D, stud at, having handle a, disk E, having the names of the months, with the number of the days in each at its edge, disk F, having the initial letters of the days of the week arranged around its edge, that of Sunday being omitted, and having directions for using the diary, annulus G, having the number-of the days in the month, with a slot between 31 and 1, and placed upon disk E around disk F, bar H, having ends it turned down and projecting through slots 6 in disk E, disk F and bar H being fastened to stud a, and disk E loose thereon.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH RAYMOND SWAIN.

Witnesses:

OHAs. HILBERT,

JAMES B. SWAIN.

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